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Sunday, 11:30pm.

Naruto was exhausted. Who could blame him? The past hour was a long one and had worn the newly pronounced genin clean out. It wasn’t every day that one of the proctors you thought was a kind and loving sensei, secretly tries to manipulate you into stealing a classified scroll and kill you for it. Nope that wasn’t common for anyone at all.

At least, Naruto hoped not.

Looking at his stomach as he laid down in his bed, lights out. Naruto began to see it. The seal, as if learning about the Nine Tails existing inside his body somehow broke some glamour on his mind that hid it from him.

I guess he’s been here along. That explains why… why everyone seems to avoid me.

Naruto had to admit, as much as the thought had saddened him, made him want to curl up under his covers into a little ball and cry his eyes out. The idea of having someone always with him in a way, was comforting.

I wonder if I’ll ever get the chance to meet you, Naruto wondered as he continued staring at the seal.

Good idea, meet the muderous demon fox that invaded and destroyed halve the village. I’m sure that will go greattt. Naruto dismissed his, what he considered to be naive though almost immediately.

With that Naruto pulled his shirt back down and laid back, his exhaustion hitting him yet again. As he began to lay down and drift into his dreams, he felt his stomach pulse with a beat five times, but before he could look at the cause, he found his consciousness drifting off to a place he would grow accustomed to in future times.

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As Naruto began to blink the scene before him caused him more confusion then he could ever hope for. What an odd dream, he thought as he started at the six figures, arguing before him.
Before he could truly gather himself, an annoyed voice rang out before being quickly interrupted and ignored.

“This is impeaching upon my right-“

“As I said before, none of you belong here, the brats body is my domain, and I won’t allow a bunch of trespassers to change that.” A gigantic orange fox with nine tales seemed to explained with a hiss.

“A lowly canine can’t dare tell me where I belong, know your place you dirty vixen”
A haughty voice rang from an orange haired heiress? At least from what Naruto presumed from the way she appeared and held herself.

“A Vixen!? Priscilla, you’re telling me this monster is a girl?!” a young voice that Naruto couldn’t make the figure out of exclaimed

“Tch, indulgent boy, I’m not a vixen, far from it”

“You’re a lowly cur is what you are, know your place”

Naruto began to watch on, maybe this was a side effect of him almost dying. A odd dream huh? If this is my life as a ninja, I may have to retire early…. Ha, Who am I kidding.

A fuming white haired man seemed to begin his rant.

“A vixen, a male, I don’t care. How dare you impeach upon my rights by ignoring me. I’ll have you know that I am the one true god amongst men. You all should be exalted to stand before me. In my presence are nothing but lower life forms who dare to force me to conform my rights by being within their presence, it’s absolutely detistsble, absolutely disgusting, absolutely offensive, and absolutely shamefu-“

“Can you shut up” the fox interrupted, before continuing his arguement with the orange haired girl who seemed to have tuned out the white haired man’s rant, as did everyone else, including Naruto honestly.

“Why yo-”

“Well this is quite odd” a white haired woman called out. “Subaru?, long time no see” the beautiful woman innocently called out.

“Tch, yeah yeah Echinda” a young man who was the originator of the voice of shocked about the orange haired girl’s claim
“Where exactly are we, and why are we all here? Especially you Regulus, I could’ve sworn you were dead, I mean, I killed you after all” the boy gestured to the white haired boy who was seemingly getting angrier and angrier by the second.

The moment the final word left the boys mouth, a slice of air shot towards him to rip him in two. Then it stood still, seemingly completely unfazed by the thought of getting sliced in halve, which Naruto noted as odd.

But it didn’t matter as the moment the air blade made contact with him, it phased through, as if he were an untouchable shadow.

Maybe that’s why he didn’t move? Naruto assumed, but judging by the boy’s surprised look he quickly figured that wasn’t the case.

“Hey! What’s the big idea”

“You thought I would forget about you, the person who stole my future wife. The pathetic pest who dare impeach upon m-“

“Your rights!, we get it. Can you go five min if es without monologuing about them? It gets old.”

The white haired man shot another stream of air at the boy, but it seemed to go through the same process yet again, disappoint into nothingness, which resulted in the white haired man getting angrier but giving up.

Naruto watched on as the white haired girl, Echinda was it? Began to analyze the situation at hand.

“Interesting, it appears that we’ve all been sealed within this young boy, and are able to interact with each other physically, only able to converse.” She quickly deducted, but her face seemed to linger on the young man, Subaru’s, words. Why, why are they here.

“Clearly this was done by some form of yin magic” the orange haired girl, Priscilla, stopped her argument with the fox to let her opinion be known. She seemed to state it without a doubt in her mind. Naruto assumed that she was someone who was always sure of herself. A trait he wished he had.

“Tch” the white haired man, Regulus, seemed to be at his wits end. Quickly however his attentions turned to Naruto.

“Who gave you permission to look at me”

Clearly he was frustrated no one was paying him any mind and decided to take it out on Naruto.

“I did? I mean you are all in my dream after all.”

With that, all the eyes in the room darted towards him. Naruto swallowed hard, fearing crawling on his skin from as a result of the sudden intense amount of attention.

One was analyzing him, one was looking right through him, one was seething in anger, one was giving a powerful, mountain destroying glare, and finally, one was tilting his head and looking at the boy in confusion.

“What do you mean by that” the voices all rang out towards the young boy.

“Who exactly are you” Echinda, asked the young boy.

“Me? I’m Naruto Uzumaki, the number one knuckleheaded ninja, and the future hokage of the village hidden in the leaves.”Naruto happily proclaimed, thumb pointed at his chest, as if to solidify his declaration.

All the eyes expect the foxes had a shared “huh” plastered upon them. Priscilla, the orange haired heiress began to speak.

“Another world huh, how interesting”

These words seemed to get Echinda’s mind ticking, as her questioning looked turned into one of instant fascination. Her eyes gleamed and she broke into a devilish smile, before quickly reverting back to her normal expression.
“This just got a lot more intriguing”

With that, Naruto woke up to the sun beaming in his face. Looking around his room to pace himself after such an odd dream, he looked down at the edge of his bed to see a young blonde hair pig tailed girl staring at him.

“You’re finally awake I suppose, now where are we Subaru?”

Naruto barely contained his scream.

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A loud thud echoed throughout the room as Naruto tumbled onto the floor, scrambling out of bed in his lion pajamas.

“WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?”

The girl tensed “Such crude language, I suppose. Subaru why are you acting so strange”

“Subaru? Whose Subaru?” Naruto questioned, feeling as though he heard that name before.

“Stop playing such childish games Subaru, it’s me, Beatrice, why are you acting as if you don’t remember me…”

The two stared at each other, without a word being released.

“….”

“…..”

“……”

The young girl, Beatrice, instantly shifted into a look of pure terror
“Oh no, you have lost your memories, it’s the pledias watchtower all over again I suppose…” the girl seemed as if she was defeated and almost like she was on the verge of tears.

Lost memories, a plea what now? Sounds like a bunch of nonsense. Naruto thought as he tried to brush it off. But… why does it all sound so familiar.

Demon fox, blonde haired pigtail girl, traitorous teacher, typical monday Naruto thought, instantly dismissing his fear of the situation at hand.

Still a future Hokage shouldn’t watch as a young girl cries.

With those thoughts, His mind recalled the teenage boy in his dream, and suddenly it dawned on Naruto, that must be the Subaru she’s referring to.

“Ahh Beato, you caught me. I was just messing with you, so no need to cry okay” he said faking a toothy grin as he got on his legs and went to pat the young girl on her head. “ Remember, I promised I’d never forget you again, and I intend to keep it that way.” The words left Naruto’s voice instinctively, like someone was talking through him.

“Subaru don’t play such childish games” the girl said flustered at the fact she was about to cry and was apparently being teased into doing so.

“Yeah I know sorry Beatrice, just trying to make the best out of a new situation.
With that being said though, my memories are a bit murky, do you remember where we were before we got here”

“We were just exiting the corridor of memories when suddenly a shadow pulled us both in, knocking us both unconscious. When I came to, you were lying on this bed, fast asleep, as if you had made yourself home I suppose. After scanning the house and making sure it was safe, I waited for you to wake up”
Looking around the room the young girl continued.

“I suspect this to be a result of the witches cult, though I’m not quite sure they’d have the power to pull this off”

Naruto nodded his head

“Ahh I see”

“You said your memories were a bit murky, but how murky are they, if you can remember Beato, You should be able to remember Emilia or Rem I suppose.”

“Who is Rem?”

A look of terror once again returned to Beatrice’s face but quickly it vanished. She seemed to calm herself down as she reached out for Naruto’s hand. Naruto gave it to her and noticed a healing hum.

“This isn’t the cause of a curse or a disease I suppose, maybe it’s shock from being in a completely foreign place, a humans mind can be a feeble thing .” Beatrice concluded, talking aloud.

Naruto spoke in a serious tone.
“Beatrice, can you do me a favor”

The girl titled her head before nodding.
“Can you fill me in on what I seemed to have forgotten?”

“I guess that could be worth a try , I suppose.”

And so, the two sat on his bed as Naruto was let in on the tales of the amazing teenage boy that he saw in his dream.

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Monday 8 am
For some reason, apart of him deep down knew she wasn’t lying.

Naruto had to admit, Beatrice’s story was impressive, she sounded an insanely powerful individual with a lot of knowledge, but still…

How exactly was he going to justify bringing a little girl to the academy during the graduation ceremony and his team meeting? Let alone future missions…

From what she had told him, she was a great spirit that was contracted to Subaru, and as a result of a promise the told had made, and well her not wanting to be alone in a strange land, she absolutely refused to leave Naruto’s, who she believed was Subaru, side.

This is inconvenient.

That was putting it lightly, a tiny noble dressed little girl, following him around a bunch of trained assassins and killers, Naruto would never live it down.

As much as he wanted to just tell the little girl to wait here for him to come back, he knew that she wouldn’t take the news well, clearly she had abandonment issues and Naruto was NOT adding to them. So Naruto decided to do what he did best as a number 1 prankster knuckleheaded ninja.

He lied.

As he entered the academy doors with Beatrice’s right hand in his left, and his eyes were greeted with the many eyes of his fellow classmates who were sprawled out throughout the room and in various positions that the wooden chairs would allow.

The room was bustling with energy, as all the new Genin waited to be assigned teams and meet their jonin sensei, bidding farewell to the room they had been visiting for most of their life.

“Naruto!” Kiba called out in a condescending tone. “What are you doing here, you do know that this room is for graduates only right”

Naruto’ teeth tighten with his response.

“I know that Kiba, and clearly since you can’t see, need I point to the head band wrapped around the top of my forehead?, I graduated too, believe it!”

“Really? Last time I checked you couldn’t make a clone to save your life, so how is it that you landed yourself one of these?” Kiba said, holding his headband lackadaisically in his hand. Flaunting it around as if it’s the real deal and Naruto hadn’t earned his own.

“It’s… a long story” Naruto responded with a far away look and tone, remembering the night his sensei almost died in front of him.

Beatrice’s gripped tighten around his hand as if to comfort him, he had given her a crash course on all things ninja related and all the events he remembered about this life, barring his weird dream last night. For some reason the thought of telling her left a chill in his body, one that said, no.

As a result she knew about how he passed the graduation exam and was trying to provide support.

Kiba, noticing Naruto’s look, backed off a bit on the topic at hand, and instead focused on the young girl holding Naruto’s hand.

“Tch, don’t tell me you brought your little sister to graduation”

“She’s not my little sister, she’s my summon, I made a contract with her the other day”

The classroom seemingly tensed with curiously, and Kiba pushed on

“This pipesqueak? She’s clearly a normal little girl”

“The same way Akamaru is just a little pup, why do you rely so much on him again”

“Like I’ve said, Akamaru is apart of a long line of dog ninja, and like me, is a heir to the great Inuzaka clan, we used to be friends, I’m almost certain we’ve talked about this before

“Yeah yeah, and like I said then, he’s a dog”

Kiba getting flustered by Naruto’s idiotic response, turned his questions to Beatrice.

“This isn’t a safe place for some defenseless little girl, stop accompanying this loser and go back home”

“Hmph, I guess being an heir doesn’t teach one manners I suppose, I’ll have you know that Beatrice is a great spirit only the greatest can make a contract with, and that loser as you call him is my contractor, and he’d wipe the floor with you any day”

Kiba flared with anger “What was that?!”

“So, you’re as hard of hearing as you are weak I suppose.
Beatrice titled her head in annoyance, “Using a brash tone doesn’t change the feeble power I sense from you and that “ninja” mutt”

Akamaru seemed to get aggravated at the verbal assault just like his owner, he was barely able to control a growl.

Before things could get to out of hand, Iruka’s voice called out.

“All right settle down, I’m about to assign teams, Kiba Naruto has demonstrated the ability to create clones, and the little lady next to him… has a chakra link with Naruto that can only be explained via a contract, I as a summoner, “ Iruka’s amber eyes softened” I should know this… so get off of Naruto’s back and both of you come sit down.”

Naruto released a sigh of relief, as the rest of the class slowly returned to normal as if all of their questions had been answered, and the two boys followed their chunin instructors instructions.

“Tch, whatever” Kiba muttered, shooting Naruto one last glare

As Naruto and Beatrice took the last open seat on the lower right side, behind Mr Broody and Broodster himself, Sasuke Uchiha. The two sat peacefully as they listened to girls bicker about who would get to sit next to him, and as Iruka explained who would be on which teams going forward.
Team 7, Sasuke Uchiha, Shino Aburame, and Hinata Hyuga.
A groan of defeated fangirls as their shot was given to the kind Hyuga heir, the one person that no one in the class, Sasuke included, could be angered or annoyed by.

Team 8, Sakura Haruno, Sai, and Kiba Inuzaka
Sakura and Kiba loudly got into an argument instigated by Sai

Team 10, Naruto Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka, and Shikamaru Nara,

Naruto tensed at the thought of being on the same team as Ino and Shikamaru. The two were extremely competent ninja, even though Ino was a different person around Sasuke, even when she wasn’t she was still a loud mouthed brat who could put their money where their mouth is. Shikamaru on the other hand, Mr. Everything’s a Drag himself, well Naruto recoiled at the very thought of the two’s complicated former friendship.

Come to think of it, why was he even paired with these two, shouldn’t they be on the same team as Choji.

As he went to raise his hand in objection, Iruka shot him a look

Not now, we’ll talk

Naruto nodded understandingly.

Looking around the class, he noticed that two in his team seemed to be quiet, as if they expected this to happen.

With that class was dismissed for the final time, and Naruto and the other members of team ten were instructed to follow Iruka, who would be taking them to their Jonin sensei’s training grounds,

Autumn Breeze flowing through Naruto and Beatrice’s hair. For most of the walk everyone was silent, taking in the beautiful air but Naruto was confused. Ignoring the odd glances Ino and Shikamaru shot at Beatrice very once in a while, he still needed answers. Yet before he could ask his question on the formation, Iruka quickly interrupted, explaining to not just him, but Ino and Shikamaru as well, what happened

“Choji, has decided not to go through with the chakra surgery, and instead will take over the more merchant side of the akimichi clan. As a result, teams had to be slightly altered, including the legendary Ino Shika Cho.

Shikamaru and Ino tensed but they nodded in understanding. Naruto didnt think he’d ever be able to go 3 mins around the two without one of them yelling or calling any form of interaction a drag, but the two seemed to have a serious mode as well. Naruto made note of that.

“We’ve arrived at training grounds, your jonin sensei will be explaining more throughly how this team will be operating from here on out.

“Thank you sensei” the three newly pronounced Genin called out. As they bid their former teacher farewell.

Before him stood a man who looked like a younger version of the third hokage. It was his son, and Naruto’s new jonin instructor, Asuma Sarutobi.

“Hello Team 10, nice to make your acquaintance.
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As the team sat in a circle on the rough ground of the training area. Asuma pulled out a letter from his pocket and began to read.

“Dear Asuma Sensei, please relay this message to Ino and Shikamaru. I have decided not to go through with the surgery after hearing the chances of failure. I know that since we were kids see dreamed of living up to our father’s legacies but I won’t be able to keep that promise we made years ago. I hope you guys can find it in your hearts to forgive me, much love, Choji.”

After hearing the letter, the two instantly dropped out of serious mode, and Naruto’s new mentally noted that they lasted about one hour.

“What a drag” Shikamaru muttered as his blonde counterpart began to rent with anger

“That idiot! Why would we be angry at him for choosing to prioritize his wellbeing. This is just like him, so concerned with dancing around others feelings that he doesn’t he acknowledge how he himself is affected by what’s going on. I’ve always told him that no matter what decision he made we’d stand by him so wh-“

Ino began to tear up before wiping them away.

“Why does he feel the need to apologize”

“That’s just typical Choji Ino, nothing we can do about it, we’ll just have to pay him a visit later today, bring him some flowers, have a nice sit down.”
Shikamaru said, reserved, analytical, and annoyed but comforting, his speciality, Naruto noted.

“As your former sensei explained, as a result of Choji’s remission, teams had to be altered in a way that best suited various situations. So instead of being Ino Shika Cho, we are now Team 10, Battlefield Tactics and Diplomacies.

That was… different.

“Uhh Sensei,” Naruto raised his hand, finally speaking. “What exactly do you mean by that?”

Asuma smirked. “You’ll find out soon enough”

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Monday 10 am.
“Wha-“
Asuma burst into laughter before continuing
“I’m just kidding Naruto.” Naruto quickly gained an annoyed look on his face ”Battlefield tactics and diplomacy means that the team will be on the back line of large scale events that the village has and in the meantime we will be in negotiations with other villages, cities, and lands. Think of us as one of the bridges that Konoha extends to help and aid other villages in times of need when it comes to political stability”
“What a drag.”
“Shikamaru what are you complaining about, as an heir of the Nara clan, you literally do both of these things already”
“Still, I was hoping that it wouldn’t become my job. Don’t genin typically have to do dumb fodder missions like picking flowers apart from weeds? I’d happily do that instead”
“Typical lazy Nara, I don’t know why I expected you to mature when your dad acts the exact same way.”
“Typical dumb blonde speaking about that of which she doesn’t know”
“Hey! Just because her being blonde is why she’s dumb”
“Exactly I suppose, leave our hair color out of her idiocracy”.
“Hey! What the hell is that supposed to mean”
Asuma quickly changed the subject.
“Well since I’ve read all of your files, I have a pretty thorough understanding of all of you, well barring you.” His eyes narrowed in on Beatrice. “Who exactly might you need, little lady.”
“I am the great spirit Beatrice” Beatrice intoned, as if she was reciting a sacred poem of words.”I’m Subaru’s spirit, his “summon” I suppose” she said clutching at Naruto, indicating she was referring to him when mentioning the Star cluster.
“Ahh, I uhm, I see” sums replied as if analyzing the chakra connection between the two, confirming her story.
“Hmph”
“So Naruto when did you make this contract, there’s nothing about it in your file”
Naruto tensed
“The other day….after I graduated”
“Ahh okay” Asuma said in an understanding tone. Recalling the meeting he, the Hokage, and Iruka had about the boy stealing the scroll of secrets for Misaki before defeating the defecting chunin and being given his role as Genin.
Getting off of the young genin’s back. Asuma quickly changed the topic.
“As I was saying, you guys all went through the academy with one another, and I already read your… mostly update to date files, so I figure there’s no point in doing introductions and instead we should move on to today's training exercise”
“A training exercise all ready, what a d-“
Naruto interrupted
“Drag? Yeah we get it, everything’s a drag, walking’s a drag, reading’s a drag, hell I wouldn’t be surprised if living was a drag for you”
“That speech quirk was getting rather repetitive, I suppose”
“…” Naruto and Shikamaru starred ath the girl speechless
“Tch, you’re one to talk” Ino muttered
“What is that supposed to mean”
“You can’t be serious, you’re telling me you do-“
Asuma cleared his throat.
“Anyways, as I was saying, we will have a training exercise to really give me a feel for your battle tactics, it won’t stop until you guys manage to impress me, even if you leave today sore, and with a couple broken bones”
With that, Asumawith a new found burst of energy charged at the four.
“Shamak”
As a black smog enveloped the air. Naruto felt his senses instantly be deprived as Beatrice gathered him, Ino, and Shikamaru telekinetically and ran away from the temporarily incapacitated jonin.
“That should hold him back for a bit I suppose, but I’m not sure for how long. He seems to be a powerful adversary.
As if on queue, a blade of wind shot out towards the group but Beatrice, absorbing a bit of chakra from Naruto’s hand, negated the attack before going on the initiative on her own.
Naruto for some reason could tell her next attack was one that she held back on power wise, as if the full power could instantly kill a target on contact.
“Minya”
With that being said, 5 purple crystal liek shards flew towards Asuma who matched them with his own jutsu, a fire ball the side of a small house, clashing with the crystals, both disappeared into the air.

Naruto had to admit, when Beatrice described that she was a great spirit, he only half believed her, as much as he felt inclined to for some odd reason, the story seemed outlandish. That was until she found herself in combat with a jonin and the two were going blow for blow.
As Asuma once again bum rushed the three genin and the great spirit, Beatrice raised her hand and muttered Murak causing the three to quickly float out of the ninja’s path, and directed towards the trees.
“We need to come up with a plan to incapacitate him, don’t tell me that you two don’t have any form of us, I could use all the help I could get I suppose”
“Why you littl-.”
“Ino, not now, we have a mission”
“Right” Her annoyed demeanor quickly subsided. “Shikamaru, what do you know about Asuma?” Ino asked as the three jumped from tree to tree alongside the flying girl.
“From what I read from my dad’s bingo book, Asuma specializes in close combat, if we can keep him at bay he won’t be able to do much damage to us unless he sticks to his ninjutsu, which happens to be composed of fire and wind styles.
A slice of wind once again shot through the air and was quickly nullified by a floating Beatrice.
“Subaru, I see that I’m only at 30 percent of my original strength, I need more mana in order to keep the effects of Murak up and hold him off, so grab my hand”
Naruto realizing she was referring to him, reached out to the floating girl and began to fly with her.
“El Minya”
As she called out those words, 40 of the crystals from before shot out from thin air, and devastated the forest the group were jumping through not too long ago. Looking back, Naruto watched Asuma expertly weave, dodge, and destroy each crystal that came his way.
His level of power is insane, how exactly are we supposed to hold him off?
“Still, I have to give this my all, that’s my nindo, my ninja way” Naruto muttered to himself as he made a cross with his fingers.
Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu
100 hundred exact replicas of Naruto appeared from smoke and headed to go and fight the jonin that was chasing after him. The three allies he had were all looking at him in shock, but decided that it was something to deal with another time.
Naruto watched yet again as Asuma quickly dealt with the obstacle in his way. This time doing a combination of Wind and Fire styles to release a burst of smoke that quickly incapacitated every last one of the clones that came his way. Without a hint of fatigue on his, the man ushered forward, jumping on destroyed tree stumps covered in crystals and flames while releasing burst of winds to cool them off.
“I think I have a plan” Shikamaru called out.
“Well?”
Shikamaru began to speak in a hushed tone as he began to share his plan.
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“THIS IS SO ANNOYING, I QUIT” Ino said in a loud tone, making Beatrice lose control of her jutsu? and leading the group to falling flat on the ground before them.
Asuma, who wasn’t too far behind them, stopped before the group with a confused look on his face.
“What do you mean you quit, I told you this exercise isn’t over until I say so”
“Then I quit being a ninja, I mean I’m to pretty for it anyway”
“Wha-”
“And as a civilian now, I guess that means I get to sit this out” Ino exclaimed, taking her headband off her waist and throwing it to the ground, a sight that led to Asuma feeling instant disgust.
“So be it, go sit in that corner on that bench over there until the excise is done, I will speak with your father about this later”
“Whatever” Ino retorted as she skipped over to the bench and began to mutter to herself about how Sasuke kun is doing.
“Just embarrassing,” Asuma muttered. “And, what about you three, still wanna fight, or are you gonna quit like miss beauty queen over there.”
“You tell me” Naruto gleamed as he released a barrage of 100 more clones at Asuma who grinned as he began to engage them in close combat.
After the last clone was dispersed, Beatrice muttered under her breath one last time, clearly depleted of chakra?
Shamak, El Shamak
A burst of black smoke enveloped Asuma and before he knew it his sense of thought, taste, touch, hearing, and sight were all robbed from him in an instant.
“Ino, Shikamaru Now!” Beatrice called out.
“Mind Transfer Jutsu!”
The girl from the bench dropped back and lowered her head, before her soul locked into its target. Beatrice dispelled the smoke once she sensed a change in Asuma’s energies, and what met everyone’s eyes was a toothed grinned Asuma.
“Transfer complete” The voice called out before it began to glitch.
“I thought you said that you were quitting being a ninja, you even threw your headband on the ground, that’s to far, even for a ploy little girl” Asuma called back to the soul returned Ino.
“Oh that? That wasn’t my headband, that was one of Naruto’s clones”
“What”
“She said it was one of my clones,” Nruto explained, before a puff of smoke appeared on the ground and revealed to be a knocked out shadow clone.
“I see…” Asuma muttered as if mulling over the situation. “Well that would’ve been a good ploy if you could’ve keep your mind transfer up just a little longer. Now with that spirit thoroughly depleted and you all within my range, it’s time for a world of hurt. Asuma stated, releasing a bit of killing intent to scare the young genin.
Ino shivered but kept her composure “I kept it up long enough I’d say sensei, it was just a distraction after all”
“What?”
“She said it was just a dis-”
“I think he knows that Naruto, Shikamaru, it's your time to shine!”
The boy’s shadow finally connected with Asuma’s and that was it.
They had completely fooled the jonin.
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I have to say I’m thoroughly impressed by your use of deception, you guys pass”
“Pass what exactly” The three asked in unison
“You pass your team examination, if I deemed you unfit to be a ninja, you’d have been sent back to the academy, but you guys proved that you are ready to take on the roles required of team ten.
“Ino you demonstrated amazing leadership and deception skills, Shikamaru your tactics fooled me, a jonin that’s insanely impressive. Naruto you and Beatrice was it, you two kept me on my toes. You all did exceptionally well.
“Of course we did, they had the help of a great spirit after all, if not they’d all be dead in a ditch I suppose”
“Why you littl-”
Asuma quickly interrupted
“With that being said, I am now concluding this team gathering, be sure to get plenty of rest for tomorrow, you’re gonna need it as we head out for our first mission. Dismissed”

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Naruto had to admit, he was a little concerned.

"Maybe I'm going insane," Naruto thought as he changed his shirt and glanced at the black runes on his stomach. The ones seemingly channeling this change, which pushed throughout his body like something that was always meant to be there.

Earlier that week

Naruto was going about his week as normally as he possibly could, all things considered. For some odd reason, no matter how his days began, he felt energized and ready to face whatever came his way, as if the sun's very presence was pouring rays of strangling light across his body, which were absorbed by his golden locks of hair.

"Beato! Good morning," Naruto beamed at the spirit as he finally saw her awake from her typical spot on his couch (He made sure to make it as suitable for a spirit such as Beatrice after she glared at him when she first saw it).

"It's rather early, Subaru, but you seem full of energy, I suppose," the spirit responded groggily, rubbing her eyes and yawning to get herself started for the day.

"Sun's up, I'm up! I suppose."

"…"
Beatrice didn't even humble him with a response, just a look of disbelief.

"We have to hurry, though," Naruto said, urging the girl to go shower and get changed (His genin graduation allowance was enough to cover the girl getting six new outfits in addition to the one she came with).

Even though she appears as that of a doll that you can dress and command however you like, she is a noble great spirit with enough power to send someone to another dimension. You'd do best to remember that.

Naruto paused for a second before brushing off the voice he heard. Today was going to be normal if he had any say so in it at least and with the sun looking down on him like this, of course he did.

After waiting patiently (for 30 minutes) for Beatrice to fully wake up, get dressed, and become ready to take on the world, Naruto grabbed the spirit's hand and bolted out of the apartment complex as if the running speed he had was always there.

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The training session for the team began and Naruto was more than ready to prove his skills against Asuma Sensei, while Shikamaru and Ino, who were next in line, observed their sparring matchup and analyzed Naruto's skills to see how they would best suit the team.

"Asuma Sensei! Make sure to give it your all, no holding back okay," Naruto grinned, full of energy.

Asuma smirked. "Gonna have to hold back a little kid, wouldn't want you running to my dad with a hole in your head."

Naruto, still grinning, tossed his hand up in the air and Asuma's direction, brushing off his comment entirely.
"Yeah Yeah."

Ino, proctoring the spar, explained the rules.
This sparring matchup was a duel with an emphasis on hand-to-hand combat, though jutsu use was allowed, as were weapons. As long as they supplemented taijutsu.

"Alright, one my three count this duel will began."

Asuma's began to take a pose, one that exuded battle readiness as the ground itself began to tremble with the stance's force.

"1"

Naruto's hands tightened. He could feel a rush of energy hitting his body as the sun hovered overhead, in perfect position.

"2"

Beatrice stood at the back line of Naruto, hand raised, ready to cast support spells in order to aid the young boy in his fight.

"3!" Ino shouted before quickly diving for cover behind Shikamaru so she wouldn't be the one to get hit by a stray attack.

"What a drag," replied Ino's barrier between the action taking place before her.

"Quiet shield," Ino quickly retorted.

As the match started, Beatrice lowered her right hand, focusing on both Naruto and Asuma before simultaneously casting two spells.

Murak, the gravity reduction spell, was aimed at Naruto as he charged forward at the Jonin.

Vita, the gravity increasing spell, was aimed at Asuma, as he bolted toward the genin, staggering at the increase of force forced upon his body.

With that Beatrice joined Ino behind the human shield and began to watch as the duel took place.

Naruto summoned one shadow clone and the two charged toward Asuma. The clone jumping into the air, swung his leg down in a crescent-like fashion, which was quickly followed by a downstruck elbow. Asuma, still adjusting to the effects of increased gravity, took the blows in stride before spitting out the senbon in his mouth toward the clone.

POOF.

"That was awesome!" Naruto responded as he began to dive in, summoning three clones in order to perform his technique known as the Uzumaki barrage. This, however, utterly failed, as Asuma's increased weight made him seemingly impossible to toss into the air.

So instead of having a nice combo attack, Naruto quickly found his clones dispersed and his leg being tossed into the air by the adult man he was targeting.

As Asuma's final blow, a kick, began to rocket toward the boy. Naruto felt his hands begin to pulsate as he floated back in the air, feeling as though time itself slowed down, he heard a voice ring throughout his ears.

The sun bends to your command, it calls to you, but you have to answer. A voice, the someone from earlier, instructed the boy.

Naruto wanted to ignore it, but he was in a time of need, and normality was going to have to take a back bend.

Getting his teeth, Naruto looked at the blazing Sun overhead and he reached out for it. But as he brought his hand down, a sudden flash of light and heat erupted across the space between the boy and his mentor.

FWASH!

The heat didn't harm Naruto, but it burned brightly against Asuma, who was forced to retreat and start his attack anew, scorched leg and all.

From the flash of light and heat appeared a sword, a sword with a red outline and a blackened blade that seemed as if it could absorb the very sun itself floated toward the boy's grasp, who almost instinctively took it.

The yang sword is only wieldable by this either considers worthy, consider yourself lucky, maybe you aren't just a lowly
commoner after all

Ignoring the now somewhat rude and condescending voice, Naruto, sword hilt in hand, charged forward at the join before him. He wielded the sword almost instinctively as he clashed with the man's chakra blade. Blow for blow the two complied in a dance of swords.

The sounds of the steel clashing was enough to make Naruto feel a burst of energy under the sun light. Beatrice from behind Ino and Shikamaru, removed the gravity lowering effect on him, and instead casted El Vita, an advanced version of Vita, which in exchange for increasing Gravity, also increased the mass on the young blonde as he faced his jonin sensei.

Watching from the distance, Ino turned to Shikamaru, who was deep in thought.

"Since when does Naruto know kenjutsu?"

"He's clearly full of surprises" Shikamaru reponsed almost sardonically.

"You seem to be a bag full of tricks huh Naruto" Asuma taunted the young boy as the two clashed blade for blade (Naruto had to admit, even though he knew Asuma was nerfed and only using about 10 percent of his strength, it was an insane boost to his ego to fight a Jonin HEAD ON)

"It's one of my best qualities"